Re: [9fans] bell-labs website and plan9

[Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>]

On 4/9/07, Devon H. O'Dell <devon.odell@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2007/4/9, Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>:
> > There are 75 people subscribed to the plan9changes[1] mailing list, is
> > that not enough people that care?
>
> Can we not go down this road? I'm offering to take up maintaining
> /n/sources/extra/changes for the People Who Do. Arguing about the past
> isn't going to help us progress into the future.

I am not arguing about the past, but I don't like people rewriting
history, if russ didn't want to keep updating the changelog, that is
fine, it was nice that he did it for a while, and it is his choice how
he spends his time; but claiming that nobody cared is ridiculous.

And I am pointing how many people care right now. If you or anyone is
going to maintain /n/sources/extra/changes, that will be really
fantastic and will make many people happy.

Of course, I don't think this is the right way to do things, the
easiest and most useful way to do it is for the person who makes the
change to writes down what the change is supposed to do, but I guess
this is a crazy suggestion in the Plan 9 universe.

An hg port would be very useful, and I would not mind if Plan 9 used
to maintain its codebase and distribute changes (I don't like replica,
you can check 9fans archives for some of the reasons, but in short: it
is slow, unreliable, and awkward to use.)

Once we find out if the code ron put in 9grid.net (now mirrored in
sources) is the latest, I might try to help dho get python and hg
running on Plan 9. Dho and me are still waiting to hear back from ron
about this after many unanswered private emails.

It also would be nice if ron and the other LANL folks could reveal
(and release) the state of their gcc port.

Best wishes

uriel